Translingual

Punctuation mark

" "

1. Encloses a quotation in some languages.

   John said: "No, don't do that."‎

2. Encloses text that the author does not approve; see scare quotes.

   His "solution" only caused more problems.‎

3. Encloses a title of a work that appears within a larger work, such as an episode of a TV series, a short story, a poem or a newspaper article.

   "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" is the first episode of The Simpsons.‎

4. (programming) Encloses a string literal in some programming and markup languages.

   "1" is text, 1 without quotation marks is a number.‎

5. (computing) In some search engines, searches for the exact word of phrase.

   Search for "heads or tails" for the exact phrase. If you forget the quotation marks, you'll surely see results with "heads" and "tails" separately.‎

Synonyms

• (enclosing quotations): “ ”, « », „ “, „ ”, ' '; see this page for details
• (enclosing string literals): ' ' (only in some languages)

See also